Originally Posted by
Macca
And put up a parking lot, said Joni Mitchell back in 1970. Of course, as Alan Partridge famously noted, Mitchell had forgotten to consider that the parking lot would have eased congestion on the outskirts of paradise. Although in fairness to her it was early days and it would be another nineteen years before Chris Rea would significantly raise awareness of transportation issues via the medium of music.
Anyway, here's a link to an interesting article about how parking lots take up an enormous amount of space in some place called 'America'.
https://www.citylab.com/transportati...cities/565715/
Bit of trivia, that song came about when Mitchell flew into Hawaii late at night and booked into her hotel. Next morning she threw open the curtains for her first view of the islands and, to roughly quote her "There was a parking lot as far as the eye could see"
Without music, powerboat racing, photography and a whole stack of other stuff that floats my boat, life is just a non stop procession of deadlines and bills.